Training

I’m an idiot. Coming out of my lackluster performance at Burning River, I knew I needed a little R&R. I had several months in between races, which provided me the perfect opportunity for some downtime. I’m a planner though so I can’t just have complete unstructured nothingness stretching out as far as the eye can…

I was messing around with my training log earlier today and stumbled upon some interesting numbers. Well, I found them interesting. I’ll let you be the ultimate judge though. Here are my monthly mileage totals going back to when I started logging them. The first thing that jumped out is that I just set a…

As a runner, you’re supposed to listen to your body. Muscles more sore than normal? Take an extra day off. Something starting to feel a little off? Cut back your mileage for a week. Sharp stabbing pains every time you lace them up? Schedule an appointment with your doctor of choice and take the rest…

Yesterday was 3 weeks out from my next race, Burning River 100. This is typically my peak week of training, however I haven’t been following much of a training plan since my Bighorn fiasco. There is only 6 weeks between the two races, which right now is just a bit too long to just do…

Rain, rain, and more rain. I headed over to Cheslen Preserve to get in 25 miles this morning. The forecast was for rain all morning long and the weatherman sure nailed it. It never got to a full downpour, but it rained consistently the entire time I was out. The temperature was right around 50…

Running a hundred miles is hard. Running more than one a year brings different challenges. If you’ve managed to finish one race, there’s no reason you can’t do several per year as long as you’re smart about it. The following strategies are how I go about doing more than one hundred mile race per year.…

So I’ve got a little niggle somewhere around my left knee. I say somewhere because it’s not a consistent thing. It showed up two weeks ago after a spectacular 25 mile long run. I ended up doing too much (i.e. lunges) the day after and my knee just felt weak. The tendon/ligament/muscle/whatever just inside the…

The next three weeks represents my peak training block heading into my next 100 miler at the NJ Ultra. This represents a modest increase in mileage from the prior block heading into Naked Bavarian where I had 2 weeks in the low-50s. The only difference from a mileage standpoint is that I’m adding in an…

I love my round numbers and today ended up being doubly round. Over five years ago, I started a streak of running at least one mile every day. At the beginning, my goal was to make it a month. I had read of people who had kept their streaks up for 20-30 years, however I…